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when we had missiles aimed at us we now spend more during the cold war, vietnam war, korean war, the bill but. >> look at afghanistan is right but a percentage has gone down since the cold war. even the obama administration said the cuts required by a sequestration would have the devastating effect on our defense. john: they always say that. >> the war and iraq and afghanistan could cost $5 trillion after it is added up. in addition and it has not made us safer. irg we've safe if we are the policemen of the world? >> ambassador bull 10 you think we are? >> how can tey afford this? >> we're not talking iraq activity with intent but protect american interests. it will have us effect on the american economy. if we don't insure stability than the entire picture darkens considerably 87 it is like the automatic pilot. >> absolutely not. we can see with the battle of sequestration dramatic cuts will occur that almost nobody republican are democrats don't want. that is not automatic. john: the "washington post" headline obama cuts defense down to the bone? there is talk. we have the inflation adj
when we had missiles aimed at us we now spend more during the cold war, vietnam war, korean war, the bill but. >> look at afghanistan is right but a percentage has gone down since the cold war. even the obama administration said the cuts required by a sequestration would have the devastating effect on our defense. john: they always say that. >> the war and iraq and afghanistan could cost $5 trillion after it is added up. in addition and it has not made us safer. irg we've safe if we...
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if he had been president, he would have done the same thing that obama did. but this is one he's going to have to explain, i think. >> he asked the romney campaign about that, they said gm didn't actually go through bankruptcy not the one we're talking about. bill clinton today in ohio tried to explain why the race is not as tight as it should be. he says it's largely about the auto industry. does romney walk that op-ed back today? >> you know, i don't know. i just think that mitt romney needs to come out -- needs to do what -- needs to state what he really believes in. which is the importance of american industry. the importance of the american economy. the importance of the private enterprise system as opposed to one that's directed by the government. and when it comes to the -- getting back to the chapter 11 thing, people who say it shouldn't have been the government. it should have been a private chapter 11. they conveniently forget the banks didn't have money either. the government was the debtor in possession of last resort. those are the facts. what ab
if he had been president, he would have done the same thing that obama did. but this is one he's going to have to explain, i think. >> he asked the romney campaign about that, they said gm didn't actually go through bankruptcy not the one we're talking about. bill clinton today in ohio tried to explain why the race is not as tight as it should be. he says it's largely about the auto industry. does romney walk that op-ed back today? >> you know, i don't know. i just think that mitt...
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we saw president obama lose big time in 2010, and as opposed to bill clinton who moved to the center, he moved further to the left. how will he respond if he gets reelected? that's a little scary. and i don't know how much further to the left he could run. >> was kicking the can down the road the right thing for a while? you say putting your finger in the dike, the hope was that the waters would recede some so that when it did burst it wouldn't be quite as bad. >> you stuck your finger in the dike because you were afraid to do what every scenario requires. you've got to clear the market. if the single family housing market had been allowed to fail as you would use your term we would have a viable, terrific housing market today, because it would have cleared. by virtue of not allowing it to clear, we have 4 million or 5 million houses in purgatory. >> the foreclosures. >> all of that stuck because nobody was willing to say, a is a, b is b, face up, next. let's reclaim up. let's suffer and go forward. let's build tomorrow. policy that doesn't acknowledge reality has never succeeded in t
we saw president obama lose big time in 2010, and as opposed to bill clinton who moved to the center, he moved further to the left. how will he respond if he gets reelected? that's a little scary. and i don't know how much further to the left he could run. >> was kicking the can down the road the right thing for a while? you say putting your finger in the dike, the hope was that the waters would recede some so that when it did burst it wouldn't be quite as bad. >> you stuck your...
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president obama and governor romney racing to get in last minute prep before going face-to-face first debate next wednesday in denver that is. what should we expect? let's ask bill kristol, editor of "the weekly standard" and byron york, chief political correspondent for the "washington examiner". welcome to you both. byron, i'll start with you. what does romney have to do to show up roads in here. even voters say they don't expect him to win? >> well the thing, he has to do the same thing he had to do all along which present himself as a good alternative to the president who will take the country in a different direction than the president and can point out the numerous flaws in the president's record. i mean, i wonder whether romney has actually been preparing too much. he has been doing enormous amount of this stuff. he did a unabout much of debates in the republican primaries. it got to where he was quite sharp. whether he is lost his edge by now i don't know. gerri: bill, you've been very critical of romney saying that in some cases he has been arrogant, he has been stupid in som
president obama and governor romney racing to get in last minute prep before going face-to-face first debate next wednesday in denver that is. what should we expect? let's ask bill kristol, editor of "the weekly standard" and byron york, chief political correspondent for the "washington examiner". welcome to you both. byron, i'll start with you. what does romney have to do to show up roads in here. even voters say they don't expect him to win? >> well the thing, he has...
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tax but the reality is that most democrats actually do want the dividend tax to be lower and there's bills to mabke it half of the regular tax, bills to make it 20%, again, also subject to the 3.8, which again only kicks in that high income levels, it's not across the board. so i say worse case scenario is really 23.8% for both the dividends of capital gains, certainly -- >> even simpson-bowles would tax it as ordinary income which is what we had in 1986 and that's a higher level. >> right, that brief time under reagan where we did get down to virtually a simpson-bowles solution back then, didn't keep it for very long. don't forget there's going to -- simpson-bowles is still a long way off. i'm not saying that the congress doesn't want to get together. >> if you're talking more than simpson-bowles you can look at the rivlin-domenici plan, but you have to look at things both sides of the aisle hate and mash them together to get the programs passed. >> absolutely. i think what the market is looking for, for this quarter, is after the election, what i'd like to see is a six to nine-month exte
tax but the reality is that most democrats actually do want the dividend tax to be lower and there's bills to mabke it half of the regular tax, bills to make it 20%, again, also subject to the 3.8, which again only kicks in that high income levels, it's not across the board. so i say worse case scenario is really 23.8% for both the dividends of capital gains, certainly -- >> even simpson-bowles would tax it as ordinary income which is what we had in 1986 and that's a higher level....
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this isn't about obama's record. this is about what's going on in washington. people are sick of it. the question is, who do you trust more to end that? and i think the odds are now with obama because people see obama as having tried at least to work the other side. i think we'll get to a better place. i think it's going to be after the election. when the voters start penalizing people for being obstructionists. >> and this is the difficulty, always with governor romney is that, he wants to come across as someone who can work with the other side and, of course, during the republican primary, he was the hard liner, he was the severe conservative, i suspect on wednesday night, romney will be go back to the moderate governor of massachusetts, to show people that he cares about them. of course, he'll talk about, you know, he worked with ted kennedy. this is a governor who is going to try to move the ball a little bit back to the center. >> let me ask governor barbour about that, do you think romney should have moved quickly to that place in the middle and why didn'
this isn't about obama's record. this is about what's going on in washington. people are sick of it. the question is, who do you trust more to end that? and i think the odds are now with obama because people see obama as having tried at least to work the other side. i think we'll get to a better place. i think it's going to be after the election. when the voters start penalizing people for being obstructionists. >> and this is the difficulty, always with governor romney is that, he wants...
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it's being billed on the right as obama's other race speech, so at a time when some suggest a republican challenger doesn't seem to be getting much traction, the one thing we know what works is dredging up anti-obama sentiments to get the base fired up. now, yes, this is clearly old news. it was well covered five years ago. the other thing that a democratic and a republican strategist have both pointed out to me is as an opportunity to provide an answer to that secretly recorded video of mitt romney's so-called -- >> okay. so i want to make sure as we report on this, it's very difficult as a media outlet reporting on media, and we know there's a landscape. there's a right wing network, left wing network. sometimes we're accused of being both. by the way, i love that because we're obviously equal opportunity offenders. that is the conservative website is suggesting that part of this is that no one covered this. we went back in our archives. i thought is it possible that really happened? it just didn't make headlines? it made a lot of headlines. wolf blitzer on june 6th, 2007, said this, a
it's being billed on the right as obama's other race speech, so at a time when some suggest a republican challenger doesn't seem to be getting much traction, the one thing we know what works is dredging up anti-obama sentiments to get the base fired up. now, yes, this is clearly old news. it was well covered five years ago. the other thing that a democratic and a republican strategist have both pointed out to me is as an opportunity to provide an answer to that secretly recorded video of mitt...
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for a health care bill, you actually had to have make a deal with billing pharma. how is reform of washington going to happen if that's what you stand for in your second term, in short, if they're aibl to get into substance based issues, i think one or the other could close the deal, but that is needed in order to get to the closing of the door. and the campaign. >> former representative -- i really enjoyed this debate. >> the challenges of covering the white house and juggling multiple other -- getting enough sleep and the segments that she needs to work on a lot. >> they actually came into the hou white house at the end of the bush administration. the first president i covered with president bush mostly on the weekends and then i started with chuck at the white house. when you have a new president, everything they do is something of interest to your bosses so. we would be doing stories for the today show, for nightly, we would do hits on nbc. >> you did dailey run down. did that offer some sort of stability to your life. >> actually we -- it just kind of added to
for a health care bill, you actually had to have make a deal with billing pharma. how is reform of washington going to happen if that's what you stand for in your second term, in short, if they're aibl to get into substance based issues, i think one or the other could close the deal, but that is needed in order to get to the closing of the door. and the campaign. >> former representative -- i really enjoyed this debate. >> the challenges of covering the white house and juggling...
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maybe four years isn't enough per bill clinton. what they know is things have not gotten better for them personally. >> that is exactly right. >> that is exactly what wednesday night will be all about. nicely put. tomorrow on "starting point" we take a look at -- who are we talking to? len berman is going to talk to us. carrie ellis is going to celebrate the 25th anniversary of "the princess bride." "cnn newsroom" with carol costello starts right now. >> stories we're watching now in the "newsroom." presidential debapt barn burner, zinger fest, game changer. the heat is on. >>> secret keeper. serial cheater. no remorse, no regret. arnold schwarzenegger opens up about his secret affairs and that illegitimate child. >> i'm going to put this away. >> how can you put it away? you have a child? >> i know. that's just the way i operate. >> now he says he wants maria back. >>> break out the cloth diapers and gigantic safety pins. a diapers shortage is looming. a pampers alert this morning. a pampers alert this morning. "newsroom" starts n
maybe four years isn't enough per bill clinton. what they know is things have not gotten better for them personally. >> that is exactly right. >> that is exactly what wednesday night will be all about. nicely put. tomorrow on "starting point" we take a look at -- who are we talking to? len berman is going to talk to us. carrie ellis is going to celebrate the 25th anniversary of "the princess bride." "cnn newsroom" with carol costello starts right now....
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obama can't do that. he goes out there and says, hey, this is my bill. he doesn't know how to negotiate. host: thanks for calling. in "the wall street journal" this morning, making a difference is their headline. romney campaign seeks to portray tough and nice image. obama team aims to avoid a gaffe. they write -- host: back to the phones. linda on our line for democrats, calling from florida this morning. go ahead, linda. caller: i believe in a one-party system. i think that one of the problems we've got is they had 380-something filibusters. let them filibuster, but let them bring their counts when they do. that's the big problem with the filibuster today. as far as obama being too nice, you're a very nice person, and thank you for handling c-span. host: well, thank you very much, linda. but i am not the president of the united states, so we're going to move on to curtis on our line for republicans, calling from virginia this morning. go ahead, curtis. caller: yeah, i believe in one-party control in congress if it's a republican. if it's not, i don't w
obama can't do that. he goes out there and says, hey, this is my bill. he doesn't know how to negotiate. host: thanks for calling. in "the wall street journal" this morning, making a difference is their headline. romney campaign seeks to portray tough and nice image. obama team aims to avoid a gaffe. they write -- host: back to the phones. linda on our line for democrats, calling from florida this morning. go ahead, linda. caller: i believe in a one-party system. i think that one of...